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Types of Water Mills
In this plate from Oliver Evans' 1795 text "The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide," four different designs are illustrated: undershot, tub, breast shot, and overshot.
Picture postcard depicting a painting of Gilbert Mills, Avon, N.Y.
Primitive painting by D. Sterner provides a nineteenth-century view of Gilbert Mills on North Avon Rd. in the town of Avon, N.Y. The grist mill, built in 1808, and other buildings on the property were purchased in the 1950s and renovated and restored…
Mills Along Conesus Creek, 1829
Detail from David H. Burr's "Map of the County of Livingston" shows the location of five different mills via icon. Captions have been added to identify their names.
Millstones Came in Pairs
This illustration from Eric Sloane's "Vanishing America" shows the sophisticated and aesthetically pleasing designs of hand-crafted millstones
Letter from the Executive Board of Rochester's Street, Fire, and Water Commissioners to William A. Wadsworth
A proposal to Wadsworth that he grant the Rochester water authority unlimited access to the waters of Canadice Lake
Farm Acreage for the Counties Surrounding Metropolitan Rochester, 2012
Based upon data from the 2012 USDA "Agriculture Census" for New York state, this map shows how the counties of Orleans, Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, and Wayne all retain valuable farmland that is in danger of being lost through unmindful…
Detail of 1872 survey showing the location of Sheffield Peabody's homestead near Guthrie, Oklahoma
One of many other "Eighty-Niners" or "Sooners" who were part of the land rush to formerly Native American territories, Peabody had to live on this location long enough to establish a claim. It was granted on 4 June 1895.
North American Hotel
Scan of an 1891 photograph of the North American Hotel in Rochester, NY.
Squawkie Hill Farm newspaper advertisement from 1887
An 1887 advertisement from The Livonia Gazette concerning stallions at Squawkie Hill Farm in Mount Morris